I have always been a creative person and have been interested in watercolours from an early age. It is a very addictive medium to paint with and I believe that you should never stop learning wherever you are on your artistic journey.

CAROLINE – I was extremely lucky to grow up in a creative and artistic family who were always encouraging and supportive. I followed art through school and went to the West of England School of Art and Design. I started working with glass in 2001.

WENDY – My father was a designer and inventor and my mother an artist who went to the Royal School of Needlework. So art and textiles were a natural part of my upbringing.

Caron – As a teenager, I sometimes worked with my father who had his own hand-painted furniture business (he also made paintings in his spare time). I did a Mature Students Foundation Art Course at my local college, which led me to do a Fine Art Degree Course in Exeter.

Gordon – It’s in my blood… I am half Dutch – there are artists, photographers and designers in the family. I was taught by an inspirational art teacher at school. I then studied art at university and went on to be an art and design lecturer and departmental head in colleges for 20 years. Read More

Get your Christmas shopping off to a good start by coming along to the Christmas Fair at the Brown & Forrest Smokery on 30th November – 4 – 6:30pm. Just around the corner from the Sugar Cube Gallery here at Bowdens Farm, the Smokery will be hosting the event with stalls selling everything from handmade jewellery and all natural ingredient cosmetics to glass work, prints and paintings by a variety of past Sugar Cube artists.

I have always been interested in art. As a child I drew all the time – especially nature scenes and never finished comic stories. By the time I was 10, Oskar Kokoschka, Van Gogh, and Paulo Uccello paintings shared my bedroom wall with the pictures of trains and racing cars. So it was no surprise I ended up going to art school and little surprise that I got interested in the work of my namesake the American sculptor, which, after a year of general foundation, led to my choice to major in sculpture for 4 years.

Exhibition number 11 is open and we’re delighted to say that for only the second time since the gallery opened in 2014 we are showing an ‘in-house’ collection of art work. The artists, Barry & Lizzie are two of the Teapot Creative directors and graphic designers like Teapot’s junior graphic designer Mia Devereux – the very first exhibitor in the Sugar Cube. We finally managed to persuade them to hold an exhibition of their own and we’re delighted they capitulated as the results are fabulous.

I have always enjoyed messing around with paint but when my parents built a house and unearthed lots of beautiful old bottles I cleaned them up and painted them to sell in order to top up my student loan. This is where my fascination with glass began. Several years on I began working with silver and desperate to include glass in my work I tried and failed as the glass cracked under the blow torch. I then had to learn about the properties of glass. I never went back to the silver!

I’ve lived in Somerset for forty-two years and have worked in a variety of jobs including as a glass engraver and a sign writer. I’ve always been creative and have spent a lot of time at local evening classes doing ceramics and jewellery making.

I was knocked off my bicycle on the way home from work one day and that changed my life. As I lay in the road I thought what have I done with my life? It was after that time that I decided to return to education and in 2005 did an Access Course at Yeovil College.

Exhibition number 8 opened its doors to the public this week. All the works are by Somerset based artist, Jackie Curtis and will be on display in the Sugar Cube until the end of March. We took the opportunity to ask her a few questions before the exhibition opened to find out a bit more about her. Read on to discover for yourself what she had to say…